At some point last year, I tried talking my dad into ditching his cable in lieu of streaming with smart devices. With the cable boxes and basic package, his cable bill through CableOne/Sparklight was $3076/year, again, basic mid-tier cable. He showed a bit of interest in it, but everytime he'd look at it online he'd get frustrated from the amount of options and stay the course with what's comfortable. Brought it up again at xmas, decided to put it off again.
Made a spur of the moment trip home to fix his boat trailer this weekend, knocked it out way faster than he thought, so we had the whole day to throw dominoes. In the middle of a game, he mentioned I should hook him up with a streaming setup, so we did. Had to drive to Stillwater to find a roku ultra for the living room in stock, bought sticks for the rest of the TVs. Fifteen minutes to set up a stream option without giving up any of his or my moms favorites, future "cable" costs $660/year, no loss of channels after initial hardware costs. Cost offset in two months.
He's old but took to it like Lieutenant Dan in the Gulf waters. Easy peasy.
If you have decent internet, I encourage you to start streaming. Might just put a wad of cash in your yearly gun budget.
Made a spur of the moment trip home to fix his boat trailer this weekend, knocked it out way faster than he thought, so we had the whole day to throw dominoes. In the middle of a game, he mentioned I should hook him up with a streaming setup, so we did. Had to drive to Stillwater to find a roku ultra for the living room in stock, bought sticks for the rest of the TVs. Fifteen minutes to set up a stream option without giving up any of his or my moms favorites, future "cable" costs $660/year, no loss of channels after initial hardware costs. Cost offset in two months.
He's old but took to it like Lieutenant Dan in the Gulf waters. Easy peasy.
If you have decent internet, I encourage you to start streaming. Might just put a wad of cash in your yearly gun budget.